Using pregnant horse manure

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Well, seeings nobody else has had a bash at answering your question.... To be honest, I've never heard this before. It is true however that the urine of pregnant horses is extremely high in oestrogen and farms exist to collect the urine for use in producing HRT treatment for menopausal women. It is a cruel practice which involves mares being made to stand in the same position for months on end, unable to turn or lie down. They are fed very dry food to encourage them to drink more water, their bones become weak through lack of excercise and their foals are removed before they are fully weaned. Most of hte thousands of foals end up going for meat, along with any of the mares that have become barren. To a horse lover like myself, this is an abhorant practice. However, back to the point, any manure has to be THOROGHLY rotted down before it is put on the veggie patch and I would have thought that the rotting process would sort out any hormone influences present. I also know that horses have very inefficient digestive systems that fail to remove much goodness from their food, making their manure really good for the garden. In short, I'd use it! Hope this helps.

Yes, there are herbal alternatives (see www.hwize.com/hrt/herbal-hrt.html) and they are slowly becoming more popular, especially since studies have shown horse-HRT to cause health problems to the women taking it. See www.ahdf.org/pmu06.htm for more info on the use of horses in HRT. I don't think there are any HRT farms in the UK - they all seem to be based in Canada and USA. I think that most women are not aware of the process behind their pills :-(